Researchers, consultants and collaborators from the CIEM met on the Resort Nacional de Cuba to debate the present world panorama.
The primary presentation, United States in world commerce: rivalries and tensions, was given by CIEM researcher Jonathan Quirós, who mentioned that commerce is among the areas that displays the relative hegemonic decline of that northern nation. Though he confused that it continues to be the biggest world dealer.
He addressed the variations in commerce relations established throughout the administrations of Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, of their types of strain towards China.
Quirós famous that modifications are additionally seen in geographical patterns of world commerce comparable to the buildup of commerce limitations since 2018 and the rising geopolitical tensions with reflections in among the important economies of the world.
He exemplified how whereas the USA and China diminished their direct industrial interdependence, the USA and European Union elevated it.
On the similar time, there was a rise in China’s commerce with Russia and Mexico.
CIEM Deputy Director Jourdy James, in flip, chaired the talk on the European Union (EU): integration and crises within the current century. Advances and prices.
James identified that among the many group achievements are the rise in intra-regional commerce; and the rise in widespread agricultural, financial and financial harmonization insurance policies. Accompanied by the creation of a single market and foreign money, enlargement to 27 members, in addition to new candidates: Ukraine, Moldova, Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Türkiye.
Nonetheless, amid of this, internally, there are prices such because the North-South hole or various kinds of international locations inside it, in addition to the rising regional disparities between and inside nations, the skilled mentioned. Low charges of financial progress are additionally seen on a development foundation.
Referring to the geopolitical disaster of the battle in Ukraine since 2022, she defined that the battle scenario revealed a set of weaknesses in group integration, together with the excessive geopolitical vulnerability on account of excessive dependence on imported fossil fuels, for instance Russia’s gasoline and oil.
She additionally talked about the attainable transformation of the EU right into a much less autonomous worldwide participant, not less than when it comes to safety; discount of intra-community divisions on migration and power.
James added that there’s greater fiscal solidarity, most likely via one other try at selective mutualization of the debt.
In the meantime, researcher Mariano Bullón addressed Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean, a historic and present assessment of the regional scenario.
In line with Bullón, there is no such thing as a complementarity however there are financial asymmetries within the area at current.
There’s a lack of political consensus, amongst which the sequence, want, curiosity, motivation, motion, along with totally different political indicators of presidency stand out, in addition to alternation of political-economic cycles, international interference and consequently stagnation and low stage of effectiveness of the processes.
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